Want to reduce suicides? Reduce poverty.
Want to reduce crime? Reduce poverty.
Want to reduce addiction? Reduce poverty.
Want to reduce domestic abuse? Reduce poverty.
Want to reduce just about any unsolvable issue in society? Reduce poverty.
19yo me:
drink until 5am, go straight to opening shift at Starbucks and work 8 hours through hangover, not a big deal
36yo me:
wups, rested my heel on the coffee table a bit too long without a pillow underneath now I have a bruise
you f*cking liar charlatan grifter. you know the government has ZERO editorial control over the CBC by definition and yet you peddle this garbage to fundraise.. defund this parasite.
BREAKING: CBC officially exposed as “government-funded media”.
Now people know that it is Trudeau propaganda, not news.
Sign here to save $1 billion & defund the CBC:
The Ryan Adams thing.. it’s everywhere.. why are people (read: dudes) rewarded for bad behavior.. asshat cult leader god complex manic depressive manipulator self loathing gaslight jerkoffs here’s a fucking clue: it’s possible to be interesting and kind at the same time
My 4yo just informed me that it’s okay if your home is messy when you have guests if you say “sorry our house is a disaster”. Somebody’s been listening..
To everyone who’s up late and feeling like shit...
- you are loved
- you are worthy of love
- we’re gonna get through this
- there will be some unforeseen silver lining
My son had his baby Yoda taken away for shoving his brother so he made MISSING signs, figured out how to use the scanner as a photocopier and put these up around the neighbourhood
Want to reduce crime?
It’s not caused by immigrants or lack of police. It’s caused by poverty. Crime is the result of societal desperation.
Reduce poverty. Improve social programs and social infrastructure.
Any time a young band asks me for advice, I tell them that the most important thing in your career is packing enough deodorant for the ENTIRE Europe tour because they only have really weird shit for your pits over there
9PM EST -
#Quarantunes
#ShowToNobody
premieres TONIGHT!
Tune in and lets be isolated together. CONTEXT: our show on Fri in Toronto was cancelled (
#Covid19
#SocialDistancing
), so we played to nobody and recorded it. Here’s a teaser. spread the word!
My wife and I have this hilarious routine where I go away on tour and she takes all of the available hangers on my side of the closet and forgets I exist
Just got tickets to
@danmanganmusic
on a whim (and because he's coming to Winnipeg /his new album is gorgeous). Saw some lonely singular blue dots on the venue map, so I just got one. It'll be my first concert outing alone, and I'm curious about how that experience will be.
So... the new album is extremely close to being done. And despite the many intricate layers of weird self analysis involved, I think it might be very special
In 2008 or so, I was working at a summer camp in Quebec. My French is really poor. Got invited to another counselor’s parents’ house for dinner. Smelled amazing. I was excited to eat, so I said to his mom “Je suis excité” - which actually means “I have a boner.”
COULD NOT BE MORE THRILLED TO SHARE
#TROUBLEDMIND
/// I AM SORRY ABOUT THE ALL CAPS BUT I AM VERY EXCITED /// LET'S DANCE, K? LIGHT YOUR HEAD ON FIRE /// 🔥🕺🏽🔥🕺🏽🔥🕺🏽🔥🕺🏽🔥🕺🏽🔥🕺🏽🔥🕺🏽🔥🕺🏽🔥🕺🏽🔥🕺🏽🔥🕺🏽
Are we tired of artists posting their Spotify stats? Do we do it and drown in the fuckery? Do we not do it and miss the party? If a tree falls in the woods and nobody posts it, can the pope still shit in the woods?
Checking on your kids after they go to bed and watching them sleep is important because otherwise how would you feel bad about the terrible things you thought about them during the day
It’s been many years. A lot of soul searching. Down some, but I rallied. Thank you thank you thank you. This is the best musical thing I’ve ever been apart of.
#MoreOrLess
is alive //
Seeing all these tweets and IG stories about total strangers helping each other out with tickets and rides through the blizzard to make the show tonight in Vancouver and it’s so heartwarming that I’ve decided to play extra good tonight
Just heard Yellow by
@coldplay
on
@THEPEAK
. Parachutes was the soundtrack to my first backpacking trip around New Zealand when I was 18. Immediately transported to so many emotions from that time. Music is a trip... best drug there is
What songs most frequently get stuck in your head?
Here are mine:
1. “To Be With You” by Mr. Big
2. “Drinking in LA” by Bran Van 3000
Apparently I was born in 1983
Troubled Mind has held steady at
#4
at Canadian Modern Rock radio 3 weeks in a row which is NUTS, because it’s now been 8 months of active support from a whole whack of wonderful stations. THANK YOU for requesting/choosing/supporting/spinning!!!!
When my wife and I first started dating, she told me that she was pro-choice, but that she didn’t think she could ever choose to have an abortion, so we should be careful… and I said ok sounds good because IT’S HER FUCKING BODY HER CHOICE NO MATTER WHAT FOREVER
VANCOUER PLS RETWEET:
I'm undecided for mayor, but for council, park & school boards, anyone with OneCity (
@OneCityVan
) beside their name gets my vote.
Lots of info on their site but here in one thread is the OneCity slate:
Had a morning mix going. After Paper Tiger by
@beck
played, my 8yo came into the kitchen and said “that song was cool. Can we listen to it again?”
Fuck yeah we can little guy let’s vibe
if trudeau had actually just gone ahead with electoral reform like he promised several times he'd do, we'd get a strong collab in parliament in this
#canadaelection
between NDP and Libs and the Cons would be bronze medalists. instead we're back to "strategic voting" on the left
I don’t think I get quite enough credit in my household for always opting for the crusty ends of the bread loaf so I’ve come to the Internet. What’s the best label for me? Toast Saint? Slice Martyr?
CANADA + USA TOUR DATES. I’ll open these shows by playing Nice, Nice, Very Nice front-to-back, then come back to hit the rest of the catalog. I am VERY PUMPED. These babies go on sale this Friday! Each city has some pre-sale stuff going on. Let’s do this!
To young musicians:
.
The industry ‘makes’ an artist almost never. You have to do it yourself. They have to need you. They don’t want to do you any favours. Nobody wants to stick their neck out. They have to work their way to you backstage, claiming they were fans all along.
Every time I change a diaper:
Watcha gon do with all that hype?
All that hype up in that dipe?
I’m gonna get get get you wiped
Get you wiped all in that dipe
My dumps, my dumps, my dumps, my dumps
My little baby dumps
(Check it out!)
this absolute idiot.. peddles fascist tyranny in the US and projects it on canada.. this is the beginning of MAGA nuts planting the seeds for dissolving borders
can we liberate our minds of tucker's bs?
Tucker Carlson is about to release a new short film called ‘O, Canada!’
The trailer implies that the U.S. needs to liberate Canada from tyranny, like Iraq or Libya.
Tonight Radiohead played in Toronto. I’ve seen a lot of posts. I just felt it necessary to mention that Radiohead is the best band. I love Radiohead.
.
.
Radiohead.
Couldn’t be more proud of
@arkellsmusic
right now. Everything about Rally reeked of what they are as a band. Hard work, creativity, kindness, & love. We met eating tacos in an ally in Austin in 2008. How things have changed since then.
#ARKELLSRALLY
Why get vaccinated? Because it works. Because I’d like to help keep my parents alive as long as possible. Because I’d like to not think about masks when I take my kids to the park. Because greater good. Because relief. Because science.
#MyWhy
Huge shoutout to the dude at our last Vancouver show singing every word of my sad boi folk music while rocking a SLIPKNOT shirt with zero irony. Wish I could give him a high five right this moment.
Big day for
@sidedooraccess
! We just closed a $3M USD seed round! In non-startup-speak, that means we've earned more time to build the platform and prove that we can help artists have meaningful and financially viable careers - see
@globeandmail
-
Hi Toronto. As a fair weather sports fan from Vancouver, I just wanted to say that I’m really excited about the
@Raptors
, and if they don’t win.... BURN THE CITY TO THE GROUND
.
@JustinTrudeau
your admin is now a joke. You care about reconciliation? Maybe try listening to Indigenous leaders regarding their concerns on
#KinderMorgan
rather than underwrite
#TransMountainPipeline
with taxpayer money to subsidize a US corp / dying industry. I want to puke
I’m so sorry to all the folks who came to this show and got rained out. We were backstage for ages waiting to hear if we could proceed. They couldn’t legally push the show ahead if there was lightning within 8km and every strike meant they had to set the timer for 30 mins
I’m going to the JUNOs and spent the entire day wandering through shops in Vancouver in existential crisis about how to dress myself. I’m no further along than when I started. I need Tan France or something.